Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Author, Poet & Freelancer
Location	PA, United States
Introduction	Jennifer Melzer spent the majority of her life as a writer denying she actually liked to write romance, only to wake up one morning and discover that every single tale she'd ever written had somehow revolved around the heart. She has since given into the whim, spinning yarns of love and firmly believing that everyone deserves a happy ending. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter, but dreams nightly she is laying on the beach watching the stars fall over the Atlantic Ocean.
Interests	Wizards, Monsters, Lions, Ghosts, Literature, History, The Dark and Middle Ages, King Arthur, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gates, hiking, gardening, tarot, Werewolves drinking pina coladas at Trader Vic's, 2 Screaming Chicks! (Cos Screaming Chicks RULE!)
Favorite movies	American Werewolf in London, Stardust, Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, Silent Hill, The Lost Boys, Underworld one-two and three, Gingersnaps, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Pitch Black, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Blood and Chocolate, Silver Bullet, Dracula, Blade, Jaws, Indiana Jones, The Color Purple, Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Mirrormask, The Exorcist, The Omen, Nightmare on Elm Street, Dagon
Favorite music	David Bowie, Sting, Cradle of Filth, Tristania, Blackmore's Night, Toby Keith, Dierks Bentley, Tom Waits, Billy Idol, Bad Religion, Spinebelt, Bush... I love music
Favorite books	The Canterbury Tales, Anything by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Charles De Lint, Holly Black... The House of Night series, The annual Writer's Market, Early Stephen King, Early Anne Rice, The Zombie Survival Guide, The Zen of Zombie, On Writing Horror, Living Dead Anthology, Philip K. Dick, Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, The 4 A.M. Breakthrough, The Zombie Chronicles: Escape

If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?

Avoid it? I'd embrace, and shoot anyone who laughed with me. Arrrgh.